Causes of the CW
This political party was formed with the goal of stopping the expansion of slavery to new territories. Some radical members hoped to see the complete abolition of slavery
What is the Republican Party?
Speech given after a famous battle with the same name, where Lincoln encouraged the nation to heal, unite, and remember those who died there
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This law made slavery illegal, except when used as punishment for a crime
What is the 13th Amendment?
Believed the nation was never divided and continually discussed unity in his speeches and addresses to the nation during the Civil War.
Who is Lincoln?
The law protects your right to a fair trial and due process of law, which was suspended by Lincoln
What is habeas corpus?
This state was the first to secede due to Lincoln's election and the perceived impending infringement of the state's rights (to have slavery).
Who is South Carolina?
Name of Winfield Scott's battle strategy at the onset of the Civil War
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This system forced many freedpeople into long-term debt with former slave owners, which resulted in a system similar to slavery in the south
What is sharecropping or tenant farming?
His March to the Sea was meant to destroy the South and force them into surrender
Who is General Sherman?
This made slavery illegal in places of active rebellion
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This man's case went to the Supreme Court, where it was ultimately decided that slaves and black Americans were not citizens and therefore did not have legal rights to sue
Who is Dred Scott?
Name one military advantage of the South and one military advantage of the North
North: population, number of troops, infrastructure, railroads, industry, edible agriculture, banks/finance
South: Independence cause, rich military history & leadership, short supply lines (fought in south)
A Southerner used this word to describe a Northerner they believed was taking advantage of the destroyed South during Reconstruction
What is a carpetbagger?
Provided support to anyone adversely impacted by the Civil War (ie. education, family reunification, etc)
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Important Union general who secured Vicksburg and went on to command the entire US Army in 1863
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
Tensions over slavery was the biggest contributing factor to the start of the Civil War, some like this person argued slavery was a "positive good"
Who is John C Calhoun?
Lincoln's two conditions for surrender at Appomattox Court House?
Leave your weapons and go home?
Event that formally ended Reconstruction in the South (with year)
What is the Election of Rutherford B Hayes in 1876? (1877)
The three perspectives discussed in class on Reconstruction
What is Lincoln's, Johnson's and Radical Republicans'?
Failed economic promise to freedpeoples (resulted in freedpeoples ending up on land with poor conditions or none at all)
What is 40 Acres and a Mule?
This group, believed Lincoln's plan was too lenient and responded by working to pass more strict legislation that would hold the South accountable post-Civil War
Who are the Radical Republicans?
The Union's THREE goals at the START of the Civil War
What are blockade Southern ports, cut off western states by controlling the Mississippi and taking control of Richmond?
Daily Double: This person led a slave revolt in an attempt to end slavery in 1831. The result however, was the implementation of stricter Slave Codes
Who is Nat Turner?
Name of two important abolitionists who had a big influence on Abraham Lincoln and his views on race, slavery, and equality
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass?
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